TY - JOUR
T1 - The emerging EU peacebuilding framework
T2 - Confirming or transcending liberal peacebuilding?
AU - Richmond, Oliver
AU - Björkdahl, Annika
AU - Kappler, Stefanie
N1 - Funding Information:
This article was written as part of a larger research project on ‘Just and Durable Peace by Piece’ (number 217488), which is funded by the EU’s 7th Framework Programme. For more information, visit ,www.justpeace.se.. We thank our project partners for their comments. All errors remain the responsibility of the authors.
PY - 2011/9
Y1 - 2011/9
N2 - The European Union (EU) is now emerging as a major actor in regional and global peacebuilding. Yet its peacebuilding approach and practices are subject to some significant and familiar contradictions. In this article, we identify the basis for what may become an 'EU peacebuilding framework' (EUPF), and argue that, while it aspires to a 'just and durable peace' including practical tools and a normative framework, these need to be set in critical relief. The EU's nascent approach to building peace is compared and contrasted with the evolving liberal peacebuilding consensus and the much criticized statebuilding project which has recently emerged. This is evaluated against recent research focusing on developing a more sophisticated form of contextually relevant peacebuilding. Finally, we assess how the embryonic EUPF might contribute to the development of a just and durable peace, and ask what sorts of issues and dimensions this raises.
AB - The European Union (EU) is now emerging as a major actor in regional and global peacebuilding. Yet its peacebuilding approach and practices are subject to some significant and familiar contradictions. In this article, we identify the basis for what may become an 'EU peacebuilding framework' (EUPF), and argue that, while it aspires to a 'just and durable peace' including practical tools and a normative framework, these need to be set in critical relief. The EU's nascent approach to building peace is compared and contrasted with the evolving liberal peacebuilding consensus and the much criticized statebuilding project which has recently emerged. This is evaluated against recent research focusing on developing a more sophisticated form of contextually relevant peacebuilding. Finally, we assess how the embryonic EUPF might contribute to the development of a just and durable peace, and ask what sorts of issues and dimensions this raises.
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U2 - 10.1080/09557571.2011.586331
DO - 10.1080/09557571.2011.586331
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79959238329
SN - 0955-7571
VL - 24
SP - 449
EP - 469
JO - Cambridge Review of International Affairs
JF - Cambridge Review of International Affairs
IS - 3
ER -